Here’s a first look at the newly released app, “Game Vision by Chris Paul”, of Los Angeles Clippers superstar CP3, that can seriously improve visual performance skills for both athletes and spectators alike.
Chris Paul has been demonstrating time and time again this season why he’s referred to as “Point God”. He’s led the Los Angeles Clippers to a 23-7 record since they lost Blake Griffin, thanks to his increased scoring, stellar passing, vision and typical floor general ability. He isn’t only making things happen on the court, though. Now, his brand new sports vision performance app, titled “Game Vision by Chris Paul”, has been released. And we have all the details.
We’ve had access to the official press release, providing information on exactly what this game has to offer to enhance your visual performance:
"Game Vision by Chris Paul is a mobile app designed for young athletes to train essential vision skills, which are critical for competitive sports performance. This app is a fun and interactive game designed to exercise the part of the brain responsible for sport-related vision performance such as image processing speed, depth perception, vision sharpness and contrast sensitivity.Superior Vision Skills are critical for athletic performance since every move made on and off the court starts with what we see. Every action on court is the result of three consecutive steps: the visual processing of an event, decision-making and the motoric reaction (passing, blocking, shooting, etc.). Athletes gain an edge by significantly increasing their image processing speed – an edge that can help complete these three steps faster, allowing athletes improved real-time analysis of events.The technology behind Game Vision was developed by top neuroscientists and tested with pro athletes. For the first time, young aspiring athletes will be able to access this pioneering technology."
A great deal of research has been done with neuroscientists so that the game is assembled in the best possible way to ensure that areas of your brain and vision are tested correctly to help improve your performance. The game has been tested in numerous circumstances and the scientists who worked on its development found that users were able to double their visual processing speed.
InnoVision Labs (the company behind the app) know just how well-developed the science for the app is. Hundreds of studies and publications about the neuroscience technology that Paul’s Game Vision app is based on have been completed, with a recent study presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies in 2015 revealing that users improved key areas of vision performance and processing speed.
Also, a study from December 2014, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, showed notable improvements in the visual processing speed of young people with 20/20 vision. They nearly doubled their processing speed using the technology of InnoVision Labs.
Essentially, even if the game looks simple at first, it really works.
Here’s the video for his app as well, where Paul emphasizes just how key vision and quick reactions are.
A vital element of the app is that it adapts to different users, tracking different elements of their vision and reactions. As Alex Konrad of Forbes has pointed out, the app was tested on baseball players and had tremendous results in only a short matter of time.
"Those personalized adjustments in training set it apart from a crowded field of more “gimmick apps,” says Derek Cunningham, director of optometry and research at Dell Laser Consultants in Austin, Texas. A consultant to top athletes on their vision for years, Cunningham recently tested a stripped-down version of Game Vision with the Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers baseball team. All but one player said the game felt it slowed down and they could see the baseball better, says Cunningham. Three sessions of 10 minutes per week was enough to see results, which peaked after three months. Then athletes only needed one or two sessions per month to maintain their improvements, says Cunningham."
Baseball players need to react just as fast as any athletes, if not faster. A baseball is so small an object to focus on and the game happens at such a high pace, making their requirement of quick reflexes and focussed vision absolutely crucial to their performance.
So, seeing as they were able to find real success in only a few months using the app for around just 30 minutes each week, it’s clear that this can help basketball players or anyone else who wants to try it.
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It has the backing of Clippers star Chris Paul himself, it’s entertaining rather than a chore, and it has the science and experimentation behind it to really help your visual performance. If you’re playing basketball or any other sport, it’s certainly worth a try.
To get the app (which is absolutely free), you can download it from the App Store or Google Play.